Nearly five months after its July update, PhotoPrism, a widely adopted self-hosted open-source photo management tool, has just released a new version, focused on metadata editing, AI capabilities, and performance improvements across the application.
The update’s most visible change is the new Batch Edit dialog, which lets users modify metadata, labels, and album assignments for multiple photos at once. Entries shared across selected images appear first, with partially assigned items clearly indicated, streamlining bulk corrections and organization.
Regarding AI enhancements, PhotoPrism now integrates directly with Ollama and the OpenAI Responses API to generate captions and labels.
On top of that, support for custom TensorFlow models expands users’ flexibility when managing their own classification workloads, while new scheduling options allow AI tasks to run automatically in the background. To benefit from the updated face-matching logic, the project recommends running photoprism faces audit --fix and photoprism faces index before further detection and matching.
User-experience improvements include multi-album selection when adding photos, refined name editing for people, better handling of window scroll positions, and the ability to change a person’s cover image directly from the interface.
Autofocus has been disabled on mobile devices to prevent unwanted keyboard activation, and a browser capability check warns users when essential features are unsupported. Memory and event handling in the Viewer and Places have also been optimized.
Search and indexing receive several updates, such as proper escaping for | and & in filters, improved Boolean parsing, more detailed error logging, and corrected in-memory lookup tables that previously caused unnecessary rescans. Video handling has been improved by fixing issues with extracting still images from non-keyframe frames. Plus, thumbnails now embed ICC profiles more reliably, and the “Complete Rescan” option refreshes detected media types.
Lastly, Docker images have been updated to Ubuntu 25.10 and now ship with ExifTool v13.25, libheif v1.20.2, and preinstalled file-detection data through the libmagic-mgc package. The Go runtime has also been upgraded to version 1.25.4 for security and performance improvements, and the Web-based PWA now uses Workbox in place of the deprecated offline-plugin.
For detailed information on all changes in the latest version of PhotoPrism, check out the changelog.
Please note that the released installation packages are intended for experienced users and maintainers of third-party integrations. For a more streamlined installation experience, PhotoPrism recommends using one of its Docker images.
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